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JOHN SAIL'S DESCEIPTIYE CATALOGUE 



TYDiEA.— A Section of Achimenes. 



The group of Tydsea includes the late autumn and winter flowering varieties, producing a 

 long and brilliant succession of bloom, and include the most florid colors found in the other 

 sections, of pure rose, amaranth, rosy-crimson, scarlet, cerise, rose-orange, tinted scarlet and 

 white shaded with rose, elegantly spotted or barred in nearly the whole section. 



Tydaea, Agar, white suffused with carmine and dotted 

 with bright chain oy. 



Alba Kermesina, white ground, shaded with abright 

 rose and beautifully marked with crimson. 



Alexander, limbs and throat spotted blackish-car- 

 mine. 



Belzebuth, crimson, covered all over with black 

 spots, like the skin of a leopard. 



Celine Van Eckhaute (new). 



Commandeur J. B. Sella, tube violet-carmine, 

 lower lobes spotted violet, upper lobes carmine, 

 dottPd with blood red. 



Ch. de Gerlache, lilac carmine tube, limb white 

 striped wiih carmine, throat deep carmine. 



Elliptica Multiflora, dark purple, with white spots. 



Gigantea, majestic growth, flowers vermilion and 

 golden-yellow. 



Lady Digby, brilliant crimson, beautifully spotted. 



Leon Duval, lively carmine shaded with violet, 

 limb lilac, dotted with crimson. 



Madame Drion-Permez, carmine tube, limb yellow- 

 ish, dotted with blood red. 



Tydaea, Massange, 



Madame Halphen, a fine flower, lower lobes lightly 

 linted with blue and spotted with carmine; the 

 upper lobes shaded with carmine- rose. 



Madame Heine, carmine tubes, lower lobes white, 

 marked with spots of black, shading off carmine; 

 upper lobes bordered with amaranth. 



Madame Lavallee, tube rose color, lower lobes 

 white, spotted with purple-carmine, upper lobes 

 margined with carmine. 



Montefiore (new) 



Mdlle. E. Varnoverberghe. 



Oscar Lamarche (new). 



Robert le Diable, dark vermilion, covered with 

 large jets, black fantastic figures. 



R. de Patoul-Fieura, scarlet tube, limb yellowish- 

 white, reticulated and shaded with carmine. 



Reticulata, beautifully reticulated. 



Thalie, large flower tube vermilion, limb lemon- 

 yellow with large vermilion spots and flakes. 



Wonder, magnificent; flowers, which are of a daz- 

 zling orange-vermilion, veined with black. 



Price 30 cents each, $3.00 per doz. 



EUCODONIAS. 



The sections of Eucodonia and Nsegelia are typed in habit by the well-known Gesneria 

 Zebrina, the flowers being produced on large terminal cone-shaped racemes in drooping funnel- 

 shaped flower tubes of rich violet and bright rose, with pretty dotted centres. 



Eucodonia, Amphitrite, fine flowers of lilac-rose, with 

 three bands of orange-yellow. 



Armide, tender, flesh color, slightly lilac, yellow 

 throat. 



Diane, lilac blue, throat yellowish. 



Ehrenbergi, sky-blue flowers, very handsome. 



Nasgelioides Diamantina, large flowers of purplish- 

 violet, very striking. 



Eucodonia, Nasgelioides Lilacini, a beautiful lilac 

 with white throat, spotted and freckled with citron, 

 lilac and yellow. 

 Naegelioides, large spikes, violet, changing to vel- 

 vety-crimson, centre of the throat bright yellow, 

 spotted with crimson. 

 Van Houttei, large spikes, perfect form, vivid car- 

 mine spotted with flesh-colored stripes. 



Price 25 cents each ; set of 7 for $1.50. 



NiEGELIAS. 



Nasgelia, Amabilis, fine panicle of snow white flowers, 

 with large lemon-yellow spots on the lower lip. 



Artemise, salmon-yellow, throat golden-yellow. 



Brioche, yellowish, spotted with rose, tube flesh 

 colored. 



Cerise d'or, cherry-red exterior, interior golden- 

 yellow spotted with cherry-red. 



Comtesse de Flandre, tube and limbs vermilion, 

 throat spotted vermilion. 



Citrina Coronata, lemon-yellow with vermilion 

 spots. 



Daphne, tube and edge of the limb of a lively rose, 

 centre pure white. 



Evelynes, salmon-yellow, throat nankeen-yellow. 



Fulgida Bicolor, upper part of flower vermilion, 

 lower part marbled white, extra fine. 

 Concolor, a magnificent variety of a fine ver- 

 milion. 



Naegelia, Gabriella, carmine bordered with white, 

 throat pointed carmine on yellow ground, extra. 



Helene, crimson, throat white pointed with crimson. 



Mad. Jehenne (new). 50 cents. 



Mad. Van Houtte, bright rose, sprinkled with car- 

 mine. 



Morgenlicht, finely formed, golden-yellow flower. 



Pierrot, pale yellow, spotted with carmine, throat 

 golden yellow, tube carmine. 



Pollux (L. Van Houtte), flower of perfect form, 

 dark rose tube, throat yellow, spotted with carmine. 



Pyramidal (new). 50 cents. 



Sappho, white, tinted with rose, throat yellow. 



Souvenir de H. Conscience, carmine rose, throat 

 flesh dotted with carmine. 



Sceptre cerese, very bright vermilion, cherry-red, 

 covered with golden-yellow spots ; magnificent and 

 very large, smooth foliage of bronze-maroon. 



Price 30 cents each, $3.00 per doz. 



PLECTOPOMAS. 



Plectopoma, Aurore, pretty salmon rose, throat 

 yellow, spotted with salmon-rOse. 



Bicolor, tube fiesh colored, tinted on the exterior 

 with red, interior lemon-yellow. 



Candidum, snow white with broad lemon-yellow 

 blotch 



Great Eastern, large light rose flowers, whitish 

 macule, pointed with carmine. 



Gloxinaeflora, large white flowers, throat golden- 

 yellow blotched with scarlet. 



Price 30 cents each 



Plectopoma, Gibsonii, fine dark blue flowers. 

 Rosa Bonheur, tube rosy white, limb pure white, 



corolla dotted with lilac, bottom golden-yellow 



netted with brown. 

 Rollisonii, fine pale blue flowers. 

 Sauvissima. size and form uuequaled, delicate rose 



spotted with crimson. 

 Viola, rose ornamented on the upper part with a 



large white spot, sprinkled with carmine and flaked 



with citron. 

 $3.00 per dozen. 



